Turkey–ISIL conflict

Turkish police has arrested 21 people on suspicions that they had connections with the Jihadist organisation Islamic State, as reported by AFP.

There were three foreigners among the people detained. All people arrested were suspected of assiting the organization to attract more people who are currently residing in Europe.

We now know how the terrorist, who caused four people to die and hundreds to be injured by planting a bomb in a political party rally in Diyarbak?r, set out on this road.

Turkey and the United States are continuing to mull over options to intensify ongoing cooperation in the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), after the jihadists started to advance along the populous Mare-Jarablus line, pushing Turkey to reinforce its military presence on the Syrian border. 

The Turkish army said on July 7 it had detained almost 800 people trying to cross illegally from Syria, including three suspected members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), after bolstering security in border areas near where the jihadists hold ground. 

Spanish police arrested on July 7 a woman on the Canary Islands suspected of recruiting girls and teenagers for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the interior ministry said.

Police disarmed a man, suspected of being a member of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), carrying 14 kilograms of explosives and a firearm near a shopping center in the western city of Izmir on June 1.

A U.S. Congressional Delegation focused on the U.S. mission against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Iraq and Syria held talks with both Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu and Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavu?o?lu on July 1.

Turkish police has found that the seven suspects detained in an operation conducted in three cities on July 1 had fought in Syria for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), while also recruiting new members for the jihadist group through social media.

Turkish police have detained seven suspected Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) members in an operation in the Turkish provinces of ?zmir, Isparta and Erzurum, police sources said on June 1.

The U.S. has ruled out support for a buffer zone in northern Syria amid renewed fighting just across Turkey's southern border, according to a U.S. State Department official.